People tell me not to fight, but they are at the foot of the wall of knowledge and I am at the top. My horizon is greater than theirs. Why do people go to the moon? Why did Martin Luther King say he had a dream? People need challenges. | | | | The Hardangervidda Marathon is not for the weak.
(Kai-Otto Melau/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “People tell me not to fight, but they are at the foot of the wall of knowledge and I am at the top. My horizon is greater than theirs. Why do people go to the moon? Why did Martin Luther King say he had a dream? People need challenges.”
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| | rantnrave:// The best event I've ever attended is the 2011 US OPEN. NOVAK DJOKOVIC at the height of his powers. SERENA WILLIAMS outraged and upset at ASHE STADIUM. I've been to WORLD SERIES games and a STANLEY CUP FINALS and they don't compare with watching two world-class tennis players locked in an epic. One of the most audacious spectacles in sports. That's what JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO and DOMINIC THIEM provided at the GRANDSTAND Monday night. Del Potro pushed back from two sets down. Thiem came unnerved in the fifth set and double-faulted to polish off his defeat. A 24-seed over six-seed upset but didn't feel like it. Can't blame you if you were watching something else Monday night after spending the weekend knee-deep in college football. Or spending one last weekend away from the TV before the NFL returns. But you missed the best sports event of the weekend; better than ALABAMA's latest fait accompli or UCLA's fourth-quarter miracle. Thiem and del Potro laid it out over three-plus hours. The beauty of two superb athletes flaunting their quick-twitch athleticism on the court. The boxing-like brutality of Thiem losing and having no one else to blame. The match sets up a fantastic second week in FLUSHING. FEDERER and NADAL are lined up for a fan-service semifinal Friday night. VENUS WILLIAMS and PETRA KVITOVA play Tuesday, two heartwarming stories that have to clash. Even as football returns, tennis will hold center court... JD MARTINEZ is here to chew gum and crush dingers and he's all out of gum. The DIAMONDBACKS slugger hit four home runs against the DODGERS. Rarer than a perfect game. SCOOTER GENNETT will meet you in the clubhouse... This will melt your heart. JAKE OLSON, USC's blind long-snapper, got in to snap for an extra point Saturday against WESTERN MICHIGAN. WMU and USC coaches worked out an agreement and lived up to it. Olson's story is uplifting. A little sportsmanship can go a long way... Forcing turnovers like ERIC B and RAKIM... So much sports over a long weekend, closing out Monday a few minutes before LABOR DAY ended. GEORGIA TECH took the loss by going for two in OT and failing. What's next weekend going to be like? Make reservations to get off the couch now. NFL season starts. Week 2 of college football. US Open finals. MLB playoff race. A SEAMLESS kind of weekend... Live from DEATH ROW... No one wields more power on a college campus than head football coaches. They are recruiters, Xs-and-Os schemers, and fundraisers. While players come and go, they remain as the face of the program and the school. SportsSET: "Giants on the College Football Sidelines" | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Every Day Should Be Saturday |
| What’s Left Is What’s Practiced. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| How the NFL botched the quarterback’s protest and guaranteed the controversy will live on, whether he plays or not. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Despite threats from extremists, a league tries to stay on the court. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Lane Kiffin has always been a talented coach who couldn't stay out of his own way. Will anything be different at FAU? | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Athletes really aren't the gladiators we’ve always propped them up to be. They're just human. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Plus: Sean Fennessey talks with Katie Baker about the best hockey movies ever made. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Lessons from a winless career. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Juan Martin del Potro, beset by a fever for two days, looked as if he belonged in bed and not on a tennis court to face No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Monday night. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| For 15 years, including the last seven on his own, baseball writer Joe Sheehan has been making a living by charging readers for content. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Because Stanton is locked into his contract, the money he made was not for himself but the Marlins. And they've got every reason to be thankful for him. | | |
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 | Joe Posnanski |
| Sometime late in the fourth set of Monday's grueling, mesmerizing, intoxicating and, yes, agonizing match between Dominic Thiem and Juan Martin del Potro, my wife walked in - she had heard me screaming relentlessly for at least an hour - and she asked me a question: "Who are you rooting for, anyway?" In a lifetime of watching sports, I have never not had an answer for that question. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| With unprecedented access, Bleacher Report takes you behind the scenes of everybody's favourite episode of the football soap opera. The fans love it. The managers loathe it. A day when agents hold all the power, transfer fees double at the last minute and players go missing on their way to medicals. | | |
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| Slate |
| If you took home runs out of the game, you would get a sport that is basically unwatchable. | | |
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 | The Root |
| The first time I remember consciously turning on the TV to watch wrestling, I saw the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, squaring off against Mike Tyson. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| An idea that has become fixed in our culture: The marathon is a serious race. A 5K is a “fun run,” a jog, a walk in the park. I get it. Five kilometers, or 3.1 miles, is a distance that almost any healthy person can complete without too much training. As running races go, it’s a nice start.But not all 5Ks are strolls. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Julia Landauer is just what the sport needs, yet she’s still scrapping for sponsors. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| As its team marched toward a national title, Florida State investigated charges of academic favoritism for top players. The teacher who reported the favoritism lost her job. | | |
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 | POWDER Magazine |
| Snowmaking has become energy efficient and crucial to ski resort operations. Is it a savior or a necessary evil? | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Long before it became a game of speed, strategy, and stamina, tennis was the sport of kings...and death. (It also didn't have racquets but whatever, be cool.) | | |
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 | The Cut |
| “Come on, you sexy spin bitches.” | | |
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